Poirot comes upon a tableau of women around a recently shot doctor, who dies at his feet. Has he come upon a murder or a conspiracy?
He is hampered by a challenging young artist, pretty but snarky, who seems to have taken against Poirot from the get-go and brazenly tosses the murder weapon on the swimming pool.
Once again, the series is able to draw an impressive cast including Edward Hardwicke and Sarah Miles, the latter whose scatty non sequiturs provide much of the episode's entertainment. But having recently watched, once again, "The Day of the Jackal," it's disappointing to see Edward Fox (whose brother James appeared as Colonel Race in "Death on the Nile") reduced to the mysterious butler.
Just when you want to bail on "Poirot" a first-class episode like this one comes along. I haven't read the book so I can't testify as to its accuracy but it's well-crafted all the same.
He is hampered by a challenging young artist, pretty but snarky, who seems to have taken against Poirot from the get-go and brazenly tosses the murder weapon on the swimming pool.
Once again, the series is able to draw an impressive cast including Edward Hardwicke and Sarah Miles, the latter whose scatty non sequiturs provide much of the episode's entertainment. But having recently watched, once again, "The Day of the Jackal," it's disappointing to see Edward Fox (whose brother James appeared as Colonel Race in "Death on the Nile") reduced to the mysterious butler.
Just when you want to bail on "Poirot" a first-class episode like this one comes along. I haven't read the book so I can't testify as to its accuracy but it's well-crafted all the same.